Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and being summond by Zikali, a Zulu Sangoma of indeterminate age. Together with his trusted companion, Hans, Quatermain is sent on a mission by Zikali. This mission is, firstly to procure a potent herb which Zikali needs and which happens to originate from a tree in the Heu-Heu’s garden. Secondly, it is to overthrow the Heu-Heu at the behest of Issicore, a noble from the tribe Walloo, the worshipers of Heu-Heu, who has travelled to Zikali to ask for assistance.

Путешествие израильского кинематографиста в Тянь-Шань для съемок фильма о восхождении на Хан-Тенгри.

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike.

Captain Hornblower, after two hard years on blockade at Brest, has relinquished the helm of the Hotspur. He has no ship, only the promise of one. Meanwhile there are battles to be fought.

MacNee (The Avengers and A View to a Kill) is a superb choice to read this ripping yarn—the third in Forester's expert and exciting series about a young naval officer who rises rapidly through the ranks to become one of England's heroes in the battles against Napoleon's huge fleet of fast and formidably armed frigates. MacNee is perfect as the young Horatio Hornblower, who listeners meet on his wedding day in 1803. The couple's romance succumbs to history as the dastardly French prepare to attack. With the possible exception of Patrick O'Brian, nobody else writes about sea battles with the perfect control of Forester, and MacNee uses all his acting skills to keep the action moving. A few sound effects might have been in order during the fighting scenes, but one can't have everything.

"Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last Encounter". It is titled "Hornblower's Temptation" in certain US editions.The story is set very early in Hornblower's career, in 1799 or 1800, after Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, but before Lieutenant Hornblower.

The eleventh tale of naval adventure in C.S. Forester's Hornblower series finds Horatio Hornblower an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, he must take on pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane. The war is over, but peaceful it is not.

HMS Sutherland of two decks and seventyfour guns, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was on her way north from Gibraltar to her rendezvous in the Western Mediterranean. To port lay the coast of Spain; to starboard, and barely in sight, just peeping over the horizon, lay the hilltops of one of the Balearic Islands, Ibiza. Spain was now an ally of England, and it was no business of the Sutherland’s to intercept Spanish trade or fight Spanish ships of war. Only the French were now enemies, and the French conquest of Spain had not progressed as far south yet as Valencia. It was to take a hand in the struggle in Catalonia that the Sutherland–at least so Hornblower suspected—was being sent north. Meanwhile he had little enough to worry him; a full crew, a wellfound ship, and nothing special to do …

Everyone needs this book if they want to know how to get out of difficult situations whether at home or abroad. Written by Rosie Garthwaite, whose career as a journalist started in war-torn Basra, this book combines practical advice with contributions from many journalists and commentators including Rageh Omar and John Simpson, who share their own experience and advice on surviving in difficult and dangerous situations. Topics include how to avoid being misunderstood; how to avoid bombs and booby traps; how to escape from a riot; how to deal with frostbite and heat exhaustion; how to avoid trouble in sex, love and war; and how cope if you have had a traumatic experience. The author conveys this wealth of practical, sensible advice in a very direct and personal way. In addition, readers hear the voices of many well-known journalists who share their experiences and advice in a very direct and personal way. This book is an enjoyable read as well as a true survival manual which can be enjoyed by both men and women (usually ignored by the ‘boys’ own’ market) and by all ages especially travellers venturing away from home or to extreme destinations for the first time.Medical information has been vetted by Médecins Sans Frontières, one of the world’s leading medical charities which specializes in warzones and other trouble spots.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCZI48eHsY

MORE THRILLING ADVENTURES WITH THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE SAFARI GUIDEPlans are usually only good for one thing—laughing at in hindsight. So, armed with rudimentary Spanish, dangerous levels of curiosity and a record of poor judgement, I set off to tackle whatever South America could throw at me. Not content with regular encounters with dangerous animals on one continent, Peter Allison decided to get up close and personal with some seriously scary animals on another. Unlike in Africa, where all Peter’s experiences had been safari based, he planned to vary things up in South America, getting involved with conservation projects as well as seeking out “the wildest and rarest wildlife experiences on offer”. From learning to walk—or rather be bitten and dragged along at speed by—a puma in Bolivia, to searching for elusive jaguars in Brazil, finding love in Patagonia, and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter’s fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America.

Quartermain (the main character from the many adventures found in the Alan Quartermain series) was a progressive Victorian big game hunter in Africa who championed the cause of the natives. Although Haggard often portrays Quatermain as being racist (at least in the light of our modern thinking), this short story gives us the full strengths, weaknesses, vision and prejudices of our adventurer, showing that his outlook to the locals is perhaps not quite what you’d expect.

Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War — a revelation of the contemporary experience of war — prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire in our time.He begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk, in what was then Poland's eastern frontier ("something dreadful and incomprehensible…in this world that I enter at seven years of age"), and takes us up to 1967, when, as a journalist just starting out, he traveled across a snow-covered and desolate Siberia, and through the Soviet Union's seven southern and Central Asian republics, territories whose individual histories, cultures, and religions he found thriving even within the "stiff, rigorous corset of Soviet power."Between 1989 and 1991, Kapuscinski made a series of extended journeys through the disintegrating Soviet empire, and his account of these forms the heart of the book. Bypassing official institutions and itineraries, he traversed the Soviet territory alone, from the border of Poland to the site of the most infamous gulags in far-eastern Siberia (where "nature pals it up with the executioner"), from above the Arctic Circle to the edge of Afghanistan, visiting dozens of cities and towns and outposts, traveling more than 40,000 miles, venturing into the individual lives of men, women, and children in order to Understand the collapsing but still various larger life of the empire.Bringing the book to a close is a collection of notes which, Kapuscinski writes, "arose in the margins of my journeys" — reflections on the state of the ex-USSR and on his experience of having watched its fate unfold "on the screen of a television set…as well as on the screen of the country's ordinary, daily reality, which surrounded me during my travels." It is this "schizophrenic perception in two different dimensions" that enabled Kapuscinski to discover and illuminate the most telling features of a society in dire turmoil.Imperium is a remarkable work from one of the most original and sharply perceptive interpreters of our world — galvanizing narrative deeply informed by Kapuscinski's limitless curiosity and his passion for truth, and suffused with his vivid sense of the overwhelming importance of history as it is lived, and of our constantly shifting places within it.

In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia’s eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year’s Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia’s eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country’s outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.

A backpacker’s charming, hilarious account of the secret world of counterculture Iran.Iran looms large in the psyche of modern America. For decades, it has been “the enemy,” its government taunting us and attacking our Western, secular lifestyle. That is largely the Iranian government, however, not the Iranian people. Here’s the proof.When Jamie Maslin decides to backpack the entire length of the Silk Road, he decides to travel first and plan later. Then, unexpectedly stranded in a country he’s only read about in newspapers, he decides to make the best of it—but wonders whether he’ll make it out alive. Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into a subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture, where he is embraced by locals who are more than happy to show him the true Iran as they see it—the one where unmarried men and women mingle in Western clothes at secret parties, where alcohol (the possession of which is punishable by hand-amputation) is readily available on the black market, where Christian churches are national heritage sites, and where he discovers the real meaning of friendship, nationality, and hospitality.This is a hilarious, charming, and astonishing account of one Westerner’s life-altering rambles across Iran that will leave you wondering what else you don’t know about Iran and its people. [24 color illustrations].

ALEKSANDRS GRĪNSSĀRTĀS BURASNO KRIEVU VALODAS TUtKOJUŠIVizma Belševica, Herberts Dorbe, Jānis VainovskisRīga «Zvaigzne» 1985Sastādījusi ZINA LĪCEREDAKCIJAS KOLĒĢIJA VOLDEMĀRS BALS, NORA BĒRZIŅA, SKAIDRĪTE BIKOVA, JĀNIS BRODELIS, ALDONIS BUILIS, IMANTS DAUDIŠS, ULDIS NORIETIS, MĀRĪTE ROMĀNE, ZIGMUNDS SKUJIŅŠ, ULDIS TĪRONS, INA VAITMANE, GUNTIS VALUJEVS, INGRIDA VĀVERNIECEMĀKSLINIEKS ANDRIS LAMSTERS Sastādījums, noformējums, «Zvaigzne», 1985SATURSAleksandra Grīna dzīve. Konstantīns Paustovskis. Tulkojis Jānis Vainovskis 5 Sārtās buras. Garstāsts. Tulkojis Her­berts Dorbe 23Pa viļņiem traucošā. Romāns. Tulkojis Jānis Vainovskis 85 Ceļš uz nekurieni. Romāns. Tulkojusi Vizma Belševica …… 265100 verstis pa upi. Stāsts. Tulkojis Her­berts Dorbe 479Valodīgais mājgars. Stāsts. Tulkojis Her­berts Dorbe …….. 515Tēva dusmas. Stāsts. Tulkojis Herberts Dorbe……………………………….. 519Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuvesRaiders Hegards Pagājušā gadsimta populārais rakstnieks Raiders Hegards latviešu lasītājam nav svešs — 1967. gadā izdevniecība «Zinātne» laida klajā viņa spraigiem notikumiem bagāto vēsturisko romānu «Montesumas meita».romāna darbība notiek Dienvidāfrikā. Rakstnieka iztēli rosinājis un romānam vielu devis neprātīgais dimantu un zelta drudzis, ko bija izraisījusi dimantu lauku atklāšana Dienvid­āfrikā. «Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuvēs» R. Hegards arī ievijis paša vērojumus Dienvidāfrikā, kur rakstnieks dzīvojis vairākus gadus un iepazinies ar vietējo cilšu paražām un ticējumiem.Noskannējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisTulkojusi Anna Feldhūne I. Kuskova ilustrācijasH. Purviņa mākslinieciskā apdareZinātne 1970

ĶĒNIŅA ZĀLAMANA RAKTUVESRaiders Hegards Pagājušā gadsimta populārais rakstnieks Raiders Hegards latviešu lasītājam nav svešs — 1967. gadā izdevniecība «Zinātne» laida klajā viņa spraigiem notikumiem bagāto vēsturisko romānu «Montesumas meita».Sajā izdevumā apvienotos darbus — «Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuves» un «Daiļā Margareta» — ari raksturo veiksmīgi sa­mezglots sižets, negaidīti notikumu pavērsieni.Pirmā romāna darbība notiek Dienvidāfrikā. Rakstnieka iztēli rosinājis un romānam vielu devis neprātīgais dimantu un zelta drudzis, ko bija izraisījusi dimantu lauku atklāšana Dienvid­āfrikā. «Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuvēs» R. Hegards arī ievijis paša vērojumus Dienvidāfrikā, kur rakstnieks dzīvojis vairākus gadus un iepazinies ar vietējo cilšu paražām un ticējumiem.romānā — «Daiļā Margareta» — attēlota vēsturiskā situācija Anglijā un Spānijā 15. gs. beigās, kad notika izšķirošā cīņa starp absolūto monarhiju un feodāļu varu, kad Spānijā Ferdi­nanda un Isabellas valdīšanas laikā «neticīgos» un «ķecerus» ne­žēlīgi vajāja inkvizīcija. Autors nosoda tolaik izplatītos rasu un reliģiskos aizspriedumus. Iepazīstoties ar romāna spilgti ieskicēto varoņu aizraujoša­jiem piedzīvojumiem, lasītājs izjūt tēlotā laikmeta atmosfēru, gūst priekšstatu par sadzīvi un tikumiem viduslaiku Anglijā un Spānijā.I. Kuskova ilustrācijasH. P urviņa mākslinieciskā apdare